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said it was very easy, only one must step boldly,
so that the foot should not come between and
get crushed; and then one must remember that
there is no railing or balustrade here, and
directly outside these stairs there is the deep
abyss into which one may fall headlong. The
deepest shaft has a perpendicular depth of more
than a hundred and ninety fathoms, but for
this there is no danger, they say, only one must
not be dizzy, nor get alarmed. One of the
workmen, who had come up, descended with a
lighted pine-branch as a torch: the flame
illumined the dark rocky wall, and by degrees
became only a faint streak of light which soon
vanished.
We were told that a few days before, five or
six schoolboys had unobserved stolen in here,
and amused themselves by going from step to
step on these machine-like rocking stairs, in
pitchy darkness, but at last they knew not
rightly which way to go, up or down, and had
then begun to shout and scream lustily. They
escaped luckily that bout.
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